2016 BMW 328d WBA8E5C5-G — all VINs
171 vehicles carry this factory build. Cars are filed by a fixed rule based on the VIN, so a car never moves between groups.
What WBA8E5C5-G means
- WBA
- the World Manufacturer Identifier BMW registered — assembled in Germany
- 8E5C5
- together encode the 328d line — Sedan, 2L 4cyl — as BMW filed it, these five characters are read as one block, not letter by letter
- G
- in position 10 — model year 2016
- 9, 11–17
- vehicle-specific fields: check digit, plant code and production sequence
Groups
Too many vehicles to list on one page, so they are split by the next character of a fixed code derived from the VIN. Each group keeps its cars for good.